Trump Already Fundraising Off Fraud Trial

Shortly after he left the courtroom on the first day of the trial, Donald Trump's campaign immediately sent out the emails and pitches, begging donors to open their wallets in order to protect their cult leader. Trump wasted no time trying to raise funds off of his legal troubles, which has become about the only thing he has to pitch to donors anymore. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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20 minutes. That is how long it took from the time that Donald Trump walked out of that courthouse on Monday for his campaign to send out the first of many fundraising emails this week, 20 minutes. And of course, the email said the headline was, I just left the courthouse. Yeah, y'all had that waiting for probably days and days and days. But here is what the first fundraising email said again, 20 minutes after court concluded on Monday, politicians drunk with power are weaponizing the legal system to try and completely destroy me and ultimately imprison me for the rest of my life as an innocent man. And why do they wanna stop me so bad? Because they know that I'm on the verge of winning the 2024 election in a landslide. And upon taking office will take away their power and return it to you, the American people.

So let me say for the millionth time that nothing can break me, I don't know. You kind of sound a little broke to me, especially since your Save America pac, the one that's been paying your legal fees, is actually running out of money very quickly, which of course is why you have to send out idiotic emails like this. Otherwise, you're gonna have to start paying for your lawyers outta your own pocket. And God knows you don't wanna spend your own money to keep your outta prison. But folks, I cannot stress 20 minutes enough. That's it. Like they had been waiting all day, that email was ready to go before Donald Trump even got in the car to go to that courthouse that day. Now, they may have switched up a little bit of the language a, you know, as through the course of the day, but if that trial had ended early, if it had ended at 1:00 PM instead of five, they just sent it out at one 20. They were locked and loaded and ready to capitalize on this as best they could. Because at the end of the day, it always comes down to money for Donald Trump. That is the only thing this man caress about. It doesn't matter what kind of horrific legal problems he's facing out there in the back of his mind, he's always thinking, how can I make money off this? Just like with his mugshot, right? That should have been. And it was for a moment, a humiliating experience for him until his campaign started slapping it on t-shirts and coffee mugs and selling it for, you know, 50 bucks a pop. He will not ever pass up an opportunity to put more money in his pocket. And to be honest with you, isn't that what this trial's all about? like doing whatever is necessary at whatever you feel like doing to put more money in your pocket, doesn't matter if it's legal or not, you want money and you'll do anything for money. Even try to capitalize off your own legal problems in order to milk your idiotic supporters out of a couple more dollars. So honestly, if the prosecution wanted, I think that's actually a pretty good thing to maybe bring up in court to bolster your arguments, showing that there is nothing this man will not do to get a couple extra bucks.